Donald Trump delivered his maiden State Of The Union address, an annual message presented by the United States President to a joint session of the congress. Trump's State of the Union address was originally slated to last an hour, but the president went substantially longer. The longest SOTU address was Bill Clinton's 2000 speech, which lasted 1 hour, 28 minutes, 49 seconds.
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Obama added that Trump has shown he is "woefully unprepared to do this job" after his comments on military families as well as his handle on foreign affairs.
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"We will be doing something very rapidly to do with the additional security for our country. You'll be seeing that sometime next week," Trump said.
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All Russian diplomats, connected to the country's intelligence agencies, and their families have been given seven days' time to leave the country.
The FBI chief also trashed President Donald Trump's allegation that his Trump Tower was wiretapped on the orders of his predecessor Barack Obama.
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The Republican White House contender took the time to pat himself on the back for 'being right on radical Islamic terrorism' and sought the resignation of US President Barack Obama.
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Such a move, Obama argued would attract larger foreign direct investment to the US.
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'Islamabad receives billions in aid from the US but continues to harbour terrorists,' he said.
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'For its part, Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror.'
In his penultimate State of the Union address, Barack Obama said that the economy is improving.
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